iPadOS 26 turns your iPad into a Mac (almost)

iPad continues to be sort of a confusing product. Who is plopping down the money for a new iPad + keyboard case and couldn't just afford a MacBook Air which is much more capable?
 

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iPad continues to be sort of a confusing product. Who is plopping down the money for a new iPad + keyboard case and couldn't just afford a MacBook Air which is much more capable?

When I'm slouching or lying on the couch I just want a touch screen.

Unless I'm sitting upright or at a desk laptops and MacBooks just feel so impractical.
 
Nice try troll

No doubt Windows 12 will attempt to copy all of this while still having UI elements and icons that haven't changed since Windows 95 like Control Panel.


Oh I hope not. I have gone to great lengths to remove all kind of nonsense from my version of W11. I don't remember exactly all the things I've done, but I know I feel a slight horror each time I stumble upon stock W11 with its fat taskbar and whatnot.
 
Don't use apple so I don't really have a stake in it but it's very aesthetic. The readability hysterics is engagement/rage bait, they'll tune it as they get more feedback.


I mean it'sso esthetic you litterally need to find the time in the woods.
 
Windows 7 only had transparency and blurring

It had none of the light refracting and splitting that Liquid Glass has.

This is some next level shit


Yeah, I know. But still, the only thing they added was light refraction. But the overall look and feel is not that far off from Windows Vista / 7. We've come full circle and there is no convincing me otherwise. May as well call it Web 2.0. Visually, OS 26 is very cluttered and not very clean. The goal of your device is to bring information forward, not the OS itself.


also that last part of that video reminds me of this. Give or take the live tiles which are now called widgets on iOS.
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also that last part of that video reminds me of this. Give or take the live tiles which are now called widgets on iOS.
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Worst OS I've ever used, the hybrid approach defied all logic, it's like they just spent an evening designing it while having a night out on the piss in a bar and just dumped it on the public.

Aesthetically it was awful too.

- Start menu had random blank spaces

- Tile colours were garrish

- Visually inconsistent with the desktop

- Win 95/XP/7 icons mixed with flat white 8 icons

- Buttons were flattened starting an awful trend, even MacOS 7 and Win95 designers realised buttons needed to appear raised.

Seriously, I can't believe we went from fruitier aero to THAT!

I remember downloading it on my last Windows PC and just having this sinking feeling while using it. I've never owned a Windows app since, though I do find Windows 11 aesthetically pleasing

Funnily enough both iPad and Android tablets are finally getting traditional desktop windowing this year, who thought multistasking design from the 80s with overlapping resizable windows was the answer all along.
 
Worst OS I've ever used, the hybrid approach defied all logic, it's like they just spent an evening designing it while having a night out on the piss in a bar and just dumped it on the public.

Aesthetically it was awful too.

- Start menu had random blank spaces

- Tile colours were garrish

- Visually inconsistent with the desktop

- Win 95/XP/7 icons mixed with flat white 8 icons

- Buttons were flattened starting an awful trend, even MacOS 7 and Win95 designers realised buttons needed to appear raised.

Seriously, I can't believe we went from fruitier aero to THAT!

I remember downloading it on my last Windows PC and just having this sinking feeling while using it. I've never owned a Windows app since, though I do find Windows 11 aesthetically pleasing

Funnily enough both iPad and Android tablets are finally getting traditional desktop windowing this year, who thought multistasking design from the 80s with overlapping resizable windows was the answer all along.
I agree with you. iOS26 is basically if Windows Vista / 7 came out today across multiple devices. Addint with it is a crap-ton of icons and a cluttered desktop that you can shove together in more icons called folders. They're doing nothing to innovate or simplify and are adding a ton of complexity by hiding features. Phone OS's in general need an overhaul.
 
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I agree with you. iOS26 is basically if Windows Vista / 7 came out today across multiple devices. Addint with it is a crap-ton of icons and a cluttered desktop that you can shove together in more icons called folders. They're doing nothing to innovate or simplify and are adding a ton of complexity by hiding features. Phone OS's in general need an overhaul.

Desktop interface design matured in the 90s and people have been resistant to change ever since.

Phone interface design also matured about a decade ago, neither Apple or Google dare tinker with it much now.

Tablet interface design, outside of Windows, started out as being big phones. We're now at a point where ARM processors compete with x86, so we can get those multiple windows running at once while maintaining touch ideals.

VR interfaces are the next frontier.

 
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